Cascading comboboxes and more charting features in the Telerik MVC Q1 2012 release

The Q1 2012 Telerik DevTools release is out the door! Following the MVC Extesions Q1'12 Beta announcement, I would like to tersely sketch what the additions in the official release are (or the omissions I inadvertently made in my previous post). Either way, here they are.

Cascading comboboxes

This has been one of the top voted features for the combobox in our public issue tracker, and we heard you! This release gives you built-in cascading comboboxes support by specifying the id of the related combo via the CascadeTo combo attribute. Once you make a selection in the first combo, the second will be populated with the data relevant to selected item.

Charting features

To complement the charting functionality shipped with the Q1'12 Beta, we deliver multiple value axes support for scatter/scatter line chart types, tooltip configuration for individual series and DataBinding client event for the chart.

Other enhancements

A couple more important features creditable to be cited in this blog post are:

TreeView client API for adding/removing nodes

Support for {0:N0} format in the NumericTextBox extension

jQuery Core Updated

We updated the jQuery version referenced implicitly by the Telerik MVC Extensions to version 1.7.1.

The latest Q1'12 Telerik release is live and we have tons of new stuff to show off. If you are eager to see the new bits and sharpen your .NET skills, be sure to sign up for Release Webinar Week. This 3-day event is packed with hour-long webinar sessions on the coolest new features shipping with the Q1 2012 release. Release Webinar Week will be held on February 20 – 22, so mark your calendars.

One lucky winner from each webinar will leave with a Telerik Ultimate Collection license worth $1999. To enter the drawing and participate in the Q&A session, you must attend the live webinar.

Stefan Rahnev

Stefan Rahnev (@StDiR) is Product Manager for Telerik Kendo UI living in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has been working for the company since 2005, when he started out as a regular support officer. His next steps at Telerik took him through the positions of Technical Support Director, co-team leader in one of the ASP.NET AJAX teams and unit manager for UI for ASP.NET AJAX and Kendo UI. Stefan’s main interests are web development, agile processes planning and management, client services and psychology.